Tyre pressures

As the spring approaches, get off and check them sometime soon.

Just had the XS out after about a week in the car park. The roads seemed
incredibly slippy, I was at 45 degrees on one junction. Got off, tyres
*looked* ok. Stopped for fuel and checked the pressures. 12psi front 9
psi rear. Ooops.

It's in for new tyres soon, new tubes as well then I guess.

 

Steve Auvache will tell you that you're just a dry roads wuss like me.
Checked mine after it's been laid up. 14 psi front and 26 psi rear,
handled like a bag of shite. But then, folk would say the old XJ600
always did......

 

gazzafield wrote

I don't have to, others will do it for me.

 

I "presume" the correct reply to this is Name Your Roundabout?

 

What is it with tubed tyres these days? I mentioned this only the other
week, and I see Classic Bike has had the same trouble. Inner tubes just
seem to be more porous than they used to be.

I notice the 400 Four's tyres are going soft again... And the CD250 I
picked up: that rear tyre was just about running at atmospheric
pressure.

 

'Hog wrote

Colin.

 

<TOG@Toil>; <>; <>
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SNIP!

Whats the CD250 like? I am still regretting not going for it when the BIN
price was low. Did I miss out on a good 'un?

 

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from TOG@Toil, ,

Way back in 1960 I had a porous inner tube in the sidecar wheel. I
bunged in a squeezything of that puncture-sealing compound, and two
years later, the tyre was still hard as - well - 30 lbs/psi

 

They're not selling that many anymore so they're trying to make them
cheaper than before.

You can only hope that they're not producing the other kind of useful
rubbers in the same factories.

 

I shall be asking questions at Harry's Tyres!

 

*ding*
I have some of that sitting

 

BTDT... "hmmm, bike's handling a bit odd... ah. no air in tyre. Hmmm.
swing arm bearings aren't meant to have that much play in 'em, either...

 

Well, as I said elsewhere: not as good as described. I'd say "good
original" condition rather than "exceptional", but still worth £430
all day long, so the earlier BIN would have been a right steal.

Plus points: low mileage, engine absolutely perfect, good paint on tank
and panels, perfect chrome (exhaust is genuine Honda and can't possibly
be the original, so must have been replaced releatively recently), long
T&T. bad points: bent brake and clutch levers, very slight rust on one
edge of the seat pan, rear mudguard just starting to rust through in
the usual place, front mudguard indifferently repainted, ditto one
engine casing and the chain guard, front tyre dead, rear tyre fine but
a horrible Cheng Shin thing.

I phoned up Dave Silver who said: "Oh, Honda are deleting parts for
that one very quickly at the moment...." On the "might as well" basis,
I bought a complete brand new exhaust system, front brake lever, air
filter element and rear guard.

That lot cost over £200, which sounds like complete extravagance
considering that only the air filter and front brake lever were
actually necessary, but with bikes that are approaching obsolescence
I've long learned that the best approach is to buy the parts now, while
you can, while they're still available (which is why I bought a brand
new rear guard for the 400 Four before they got totally deleted). Then,
if you need the bits, you've got 'em, and if you decide to sell the
bike, you can sell the parts separately and you'll rarely lose money on
them - or not much, anyway. And if they've been deleted in the meantime
you certainly won't.

And that's not taking into account the Trophy Syndrome: buying bits
just in case you dump the bike :-/

 

I used that once for a porous tube. I ended up having to replace
a practically brand new tyre. The tube was glued hard to it. Of
course that was over 20 years ago and they may have improved
things since then.

Ken Young

 

Dunno, but my YZ250 with its heavy-duty tubes never holds pressure
over even a week.

 

<TOG@Toil>; <>; <>
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Well, as I said elsewhere: not as good as described. I'd say "good
original" condition rather than "exceptional", but still worth £430
all day long, so the earlier BIN would have been a right steal.

SNIP!

Damn! Sounds pretty good to me. I knew I should have gone for it but SWBO
would have gone into one if I had aquired yet another bike. Hope it gives
you much pleasure.